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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Norm Messa
Today we visit a career/technical school in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. Norm Messa is the teacher we talk to there. Norm is a second career teacher whoSeacoast...
From Putting People First
User experience is not just design, it’s the key to innovation and growth
Brian Solis met up with Jesse James Garrett (author of The Elements of User Experience and Co-Founder of Adaptive Path) to talk about the state of user experience...
From Putting People First
User experience is more than design – it’s strategy
t’s time that we expand the role of User Experience beyond execution, beyond output, and yes, even beyond design, writes Christopher Grant Ward, Director of Product...
From Putting People First
Putting the customer at the centre of your retail business
Oracle recently conducted some research into the shopping needs and expectations of shoppers in Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US – in an...
From Putting People First
Making the most of ethnographic research
Applying ethnographic methods to digital experiences can yield myriad benefits that go beyond simply validating that something works or identifying opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion Sniffing from a Phone
In Fastcompany: This could be a very useful thing to understand how people are reacting to an environment. Pay people to use the idea. And their phone is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Analytical Databases
Interesting piece by Wayne Eckerson. Linking to an upcoming talk. How to get data to advanced analytical methods effectively? The world has changed from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bezos Buys Washington Post
Another example of the old information systems combining with the new. It had become too cheap not to acquire. Perhaps they should also buy Barnes & Noble? I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Maths Win Wall Street
A view of what used to be called 'rocket scientists' in Wall Street. I recall going to a talk at the Santa Fe Institute and hearing a talk about this phenomenon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs
Informs is a A professional organization I have been part of for many years. The science of better ... Industrial mathematics and decision making. It usesTheir...
From Computational Complexity
Longest time between posing a math problem and it being answered?
(We were asked to remind you: ITCS 2014 Call for papers: call for papers.) What problem in math had the longest time between POSING IT and SOLVING it? This might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data for the Masses
Can everyone be a data scientist? You will at very least need the strong support of data scientists. Similar to delivering analytics to everyone. Its not so much...
From Schneier on Security
The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carryenormous...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 August 2013
I turned 3C years old yesterday. That’s in Hex of course. 110 1100 in binary. In place of presents post a link to my blog on your blog, Facebook and/or Twitter...
From Putting People First
Smart cities workshop with the Design Center Busan
A few days ago Experientia’s latest collaboration with Korea’s Design Center Busan wrapped up, as 21 South Korean students completed a summer study program in Turin...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Crypto Aspects of The Jacobian Conjecture
Crypto concepts promise partial progress via partial inversion cropped from source. Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali recently won the prestigious Turing Award...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature Blog on Visualization
Just discovered this blog that covers visualization methods for Nature Methods. This post acts as an index to all other pieces in the blog. Points of view, certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Not Trusting Data Science
Language Lab of the University of Pennsylvania comments on a recent article about the nature of the data scientist. Essentially making the case that the label"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Excellence Weekly
I quote this group frequently. Here is their weekly review. I am loosely connected to this effort. Worth following. " ... News and Insights from the Global Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle